Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time since he went into politics, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, one of his party's most marketable presidential prospects, last week ventured out of his home state for a frankly political appearance. For his audience, Rocky picked one of the nation's toughest: Washington's Republicans-only Capitol Hill Club, whose 1,300 members, centering around the G.O.P. members of Congress, have seen many a bright-looking Republican come...
...when your hands are wobbling, but when your feet start wobbling, too . . ." On that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize...
...achieve his goals will require every one of Charlie Halleck's gut-fighting talents. "Once you are in a war," he says, "the only thing to do is win it." To Indiana Republican Halleck, after his years of frustration, politics is the greatest, toughest war of all. He intends...
...victims and the government announced that a commission from Britain would study Kenya's prison-camp system. Last week authorities let Kenya newspapermen fly into the remote Hola camp for a firsthand look. But they were not allowed to see the one-acre inner enclosure where the toughest of the prisoners remain. Reason: scores of the inmates are now on a hunger strike...
...require roll-bars on every car, flameproof coveralls for every driver. Still, two drivers have died in practice runs this month. Says 45-year-old Fred Agabashian, longtime 500 driver who quit racing last year: "You don't reach retirement age in one of those things." Even the toughest drivers find the Indianapolis toughest of all. Johnny Parsons, the 1950 winner, retired this month with the explanation: "When you get down to the end of those straightaways and can't hold your foot down any more, it's time to quit...